Vietnamese win Global Industrial Competition

Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam announced that Vitenamese technicians had recently won a global industrial competition in Korea. The competition involved entries from Doosan Heavy Industries seven worldwide production sites and to honor and welcome the winning team home a cermony was held at the company’s 110 hectarce high tech manufacturing complex in Quang Ngai.

“This is a significant event because Vietnamese industrial skills were pitted against much more experienced and senior operations from around the world, and we won!” Said a spokesperson who went on to say, Doosan’s Vietnamese operation has only been in production for a little more than three years and winning the competion is certanily a testimony to the skill and expertise of the Vietnamese workforce”.

The twelve members of the “Panel Fabrication One Team” of the Boiler Division were given a heroes welcome and honored by the Board of Management and the entire staff of the Boiler division with speeches, banners, flowers, a three day victory tour of Vietnam and a party with a special cake made in thier honor.

The winning Vietnamese entries were a chamfering tool and mini crane that the team created to help overcome some production issues in the manufacture of the high tech boilers which are the heart of a modern power plant.

The new chamfering tool & mini crane helped save nearly 2,000 man hours and 1,000 hours of crane time on the MD II boiler being fabricated by Doosan Vina and these innovations will continue to be time savers on all future Boiler projects.

"The victory at the Doosan-wide Keson Contest was really an unforgettable experience. It is remarkable that in three years Doosan Vina’s innovation is comparable to that of our parent companies 30-year history, I am flying high, because after all the research and testing, we succeeded and have shown the exceptional creativity of Vietnamese workers,” Chief Worker, Phan Thanh Phat said.

Doosan Vina

Doosan Vina is a high tech industrial complex in the Dung Quat Economic Zone of Central Vietnam’s QuangNgaiProvince. The company supplies the mega infrastructure products that make modern life a reality. Doosan Vina’s products include: Boilers for thermal power plants, Heat Recovery Steam Generators that increase the efficiency of a typical power plant by over 30%, Desalination plants the size of a football pitch that turn sea water into fresh, Material Handling Systems like the cranes that are the heart of logistics at ports around the world and Chemical Processing Equipment that turns the earth’s natural resources into the useful products we use every day.

The Doosan Group

The Doosan Group is a global multinational focusing on Power, Water and other infrastructure developments worldwide. The company is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, has operations in 37 countries, over 35,000 employees and $22 billion in annual revenue.

The winning team was welcomed by the Board of Management and the entire staff of the Boiler shop for their championship win at the global Doosan-wide Keson industrial production contest held in Korea.